Can we cheer up conservatives?

Materialism depresses real conservatives, that is, paleoconservatives, but most deeply in the religious metaphysical sense, and this seems to be where their excessive pessimism is coming from. The material world, the world of flesh and desire, can never be anything but second rate, and so, deep down, soul-down, conservatives see the material decline of ancient Rome, and the similar decline now of America, as stemming mainly from the decline of spiritual values. History repeats itself because human nature does not change in being materialistic.

But what if there exists a religious materialism? There does, in the Twofold Path of theological materialism. The material world evolves to the supermaterial world of Godhood, the God first glimpsed in the Inward Path of traditional religion. That is, deep down, soul-down, there is reason for optimism, the material world is the main vehicle by which we evolve to real Godhood, activated by the Spirit-Will within life, or Tirips, and shaped by outside evolution and selection. Material paths are required in religion to reach Godhood, which is also defined as supreme success in survival.

When we look at the diversity of groups, ethnic groups, which are now increasingly tearing old nations apart, as happened before to the Roman Republic, we can see that a solution can come in affirming some version of ethnopluralism as the natural political state of real human nature, that is, we can find a material solution to our internal bickering, for example, with small virtual ethnostates, not unlike the original regions and states in America, and protected by federalism. Both material and religious needs can be met, as we all seek to evolve in variety to Godhood in our own ways. Even given our differences, cooperative competition can be encouraged, which is good for evolution in general, and religion in particular.